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9 Optical Illusions to Confuse Your Brain

Your eyes can play tricks on you. Pictures that confuse your eyes and brain, tricking them into seeing something differently, are called optical illusions. See if you can figure out these optical illusions.

WHICH OBJECT IS TALLER?

Which object is taller?

None: They’re all the same size.


WHICH LINE IS LONGER?

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Neither: They’re both the same.


IS THIS GRAY HAZE SHRINKING?

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Stare at the black dot. After a while the gray haze will appear to shrink.


DO THESE COLORED LINES BEND?

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No, they’re perfectly straight—but try telling your eyes that!


ARE THESE WHEELS SPINNING?

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Stare at the center. Now move your head back and forth toward and away from the screen. The circles will appear to spin.


HOW MANY BLACK DOTS CAN YOU COUNT?

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Look closely and you will see them.


DO YOU SEE TWO FACES OR A VASE?

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If you see one, close your eyes for a moment, then look for the other.


ARE THESE LINES STRAIGHT OR CROOKED?

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Yep, you guessed it. The horizontal lines look crooked, but they are perfectly straight.


ARE YOU SEEING RED, WHITE & BLUE?

Stare at the center of this flag for one minute. Then look at an empty white sheet of paper and you’ll see a red, white and blue flag.

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HOW THIS FLAG WORKS

Your eyes see color as measures of red or green, blue or yellow and bright or dark. When you look at a green object for a long time, your eyes get tired and start seeing red. When you look at yellow, after a while you’ll start to see blue. And darkness turns into brightness. The result: Even this wacky flag can be good, old red, white and blue — after a while!

68 Comments on 9 Optical Illusions to Confuse Your Brain

  1. anonamus(wrongly spelled) // February 2, 2014 at 10:24 am // Reply

    The wheel one is pretty cool but I don’t get how the flag one works.

  2. wow

  3. Good job though I have a few of my own though mine aren’t that good so yeh pretty cool😄

  4. Flag one didn’t work

  5. Cool! Im a boyscout and i love opticle illusions!!!

  6. OMG I LOVE THE FLAG ONE!!!! KEEP EM’ COMIN

  7. holy cow some of these are pretty strange

  8. Pretty cool but some of them kind of creep me out for some reason

  9. wow amazing

  10. the flag was the best

  11. the flag oe is awesome

  12. KKtomBrady BRady // September 28, 2013 at 2:58 pm // Reply

    If u blink really fast on the wheel 1 it looks like its moving

  13. Wow.
    Amazing.
    Enough said.

  14. none of them worked for my little brother.

  15. Very cool

  16. the wheel one is really cool

  17. the flag one is the coolest

  18. The wheel one is really cool

  19. wander over yander // September 20, 2013 at 6:49 pm // Reply

    none of them work but the black dot one

  20. The wheel and the flag didn’t work for me : l

  21. the flag is so cool.I’ve seen things like the flag before

  22. awezome

  23. Everything works but the flag

  24. Herobrine shrimp // August 6, 2013 at 5:38 pm // Reply

    Make more of a challenge none of those were cool and they didint wok well

  25. Cool

  26. how do they do that?!!!

  27. angry bird // June 28, 2013 at 12:28 pm // Reply

    thats so cool

  28. Lego Freak // June 27, 2013 at 9:56 am // Reply

    the flag wont work!!

  29. I LOVE THE DOTS!!! 😀

  30. The flag one is the best

  31. Shinbone33 // June 15, 2013 at 10:26 am // Reply

    They are all awesome!
    I love the flag one!

  32. crazy flig // May 24, 2013 at 7:41 am // Reply

    thats pretty neat

  33. Really cool

  34. these r awesome please make more

  35. PLEASE MAKE MORE!!!! They are awesome.

  36. the wheel is cool

  37. The wheel doesn’t spin

  38. awesome i love these kinds of things

  39. fatherjuniperoserra // April 22, 2013 at 10:00 pm // Reply

    So cooool!!! PUT MORE

  40. i love the black dot one

  41. i like pie // April 22, 2013 at 7:06 pm // Reply

    cool

  42. i like pie // April 22, 2013 at 7:05 pm // Reply

    awesome

  43. AWESOME!!!!!

  44. illusions says; // April 16, 2013 at 5:31 pm // Reply

    the flag one does not work.];

  45. awesome! it was cool!

  46. some minecraft guy farted! // April 15, 2013 at 6:45 pm // Reply

    how do they do this? its so cool! i cant beleve it!

  47. WOW! the black dot one is SO COOL!

  48. Herobrine Hunter // April 13, 2013 at 4:19 pm // Reply

    Awesome

  49. Any more

  50. Martian man // April 12, 2013 at 12:50 pm // Reply

    Cool! please make more hmm?

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